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Do you believe Gypsies

can curse people?

I tend to believe what my friends

tell me and what I can see.

My mother is a different story.

Hold on.

[Speaking Italian]

[Speaking Italian]

Si.

[Thunderclap]

[Speaking Italian,

Pretends To Spit]

She says she believes.

She knew Gypsies in the old country.

She says whoever puts it on

has to take it off. No one else can.

No one else.

What's this all about?

I'll get back to you. Thank you.

What happened

at the Rossington's last night?

Leda Rossington thinks that old Gypsy,

Tadzu Lempke, put a curse on Cary and I.

What?

I know how it sounds,

but that's what she thinks.

You see...

Cary has this skin cancer...

Billy, there is no such thing

as a Gypsy curse.

Even if there were, it wouldn't just

be you and Cary that Lempke would curse.

It would be the entire town.

Yeah?

The whole town didn't kill his wife

and then try and cover it up.

It was me and Cary and...

What?

It would be Hopley too.

He was in on the cover-up.

Billy...

all you have to do right now...

is to think about checking yourself

into the clinic and getting better.

That's all.

Look out!

We're here.

Hopley, answer, damn it.

- Good morning, Mr. Halleck.

- Morning.

We've used the computer

to synthesize your test results.

Amazing.

Over 12,000 calories a day,

and you continue to lose weight.

Here you are.

Extra whipped cream,

just as you specified.

We have some good protocols.

They'll take a week or two to work out.

What if that

doesn't tell you anything?

We'll keep running tests.

We won't give up.

Rest assured of that.

- Where are you going?

- To get some takeout.

Duncan, it's Billy Halleck.

The guy at the station house

said you were home sick.

You okay?

Come on, Duncan.

I know about the judge.

What's happened to you?

I don't really think

you want to know...

but come on in.

[Lock Clicking]

So...

now Rossington looks like

what he was all along.

That's funny.

And look at you.

You finally found a diet that works.

Whatever we did,

we don't deserve this.

No? You ran the old lady down.

Rossington fixed it so points weren't

even taken off your driving record.

And I just ran the whole pack

of them out of the county.

Come on. I'm not a criminal.

I wasn't drunk.

How would I know?

I didn't give you a Breathalyzer test.

I said I did.

That's just the way we do things

here in Fairview, isn't it?

What the hell.

- Old lady was jaywalking.

- I wasn't drunk.

Maybe there was

something else going on, though.

- Like what?

- Never mind.

I want to find the old guy

and tell him we don't deserve this.

You think he put a curse on you?

Good old-fashioned Gypsy curse,

like in Shock Theater?

Does it matter?

I have some things to say to him.

Maybe you want to come with me?

Christ, Hopley.

- I'm sorry.

- Don't be.

Yours is just a little slower.

You'll get there eventually.

I am not going anywhere.

You find him, Billy.

You find him.

When you do...

I want you to kill that old bastard

and say it's from me.

I can't.

I can't kill him.

I need him to take the curse off.

He's the only one who can, I think.

You think he'll take it off?

Are you gonna snivel up to him

and say, "I'm so sorry"?

Look how sorry I am!

Don't be stupid!

Take the gun! Go on.

Take it.

Take the gun.

Take the gun.

Take the goddamn gun!

Take the gun!

Shoot him!

It's the only satisfaction you'll get,

'cause he'll never take the curse off!

Never!

Never!

[Gunshot]

Mike Houston was here.

Why did you leave the clinic?

Billy?

Are you all right?

Fine.

We care about you, sweetheart.

I care about you.

Linda.

The doctors at the Glassman Clinic

can't help me.

If they can't help you,

who do you think can?

I saw Duncan Hopley

before I came home.

He offered to give me his gun.

I didn't take it.

- Thank God!

- I probably should have, though.

I heard a gunshot after I left.

Maybe Duncan saw a rat and decided

to do a little brain surgery on it...

but I don't think so.

Lempke cursed him too.

His face...

Please. Please! Please don't go

through that curse thing again!

What else can it be?

I'm not on a diet!

It's not anorexia!

I don't have a tapeworm!

I've been eating like mad for six weeks!

And I'm still losing weight!

I'm being erased.

What about the Glassman?

They keep calling me about you.

Forget the Glassman.

Heidi told me what you said

about this curse thing.

Tells you a lot, doesn't she?

Whispers little secrets in your ear.

- What's that supposed to mean?

- Forget it.

All you need to remember

is it's not "a thing."

It's a fact, a curse.

If you don't believe me,

ask Rossington.

Heidi told me what you said about him,

so I called Leda.

He's got skin cancer.

He's being treated.

Skin cancer, my ass.

You are running out of time.

No sh*t. In two weeks, I won't be able

to go to the bathroom by myself.

- You have to go back to the clinic.

- Wrong.

I have to find those Gypsies.

- Do you see what I'm talking about?

- Yeah, I think he's in trouble.

He's very irrational.

If I were you...

[Engine Starts]

[Heidi] Oh, Mike.

[Tires Squealing]

Tadzu Lempke.

Their king. Also, father of the woman

you struck with your car.

Father?

That's impossible.

That woman was old: 75, 80.

Lempke is 106.

This is his great-granddaughter

and her husband.

He claimed to be 29 when he entered

the country from Europe in 1917.

You figure it out.

You want to talk

about where they're going?

Okay.

I tracked them to Raintree.

Then Milford.

Then Greenough,

which I had never heard of.

Where do you think

they're headed now?

Headed up the Maine coast.

They're always in Bar Harbor at the end

of the season. Pick them up there.

I don't have that much time.

[Mike] I have the order.

All you have to do is sign it.

[Heidi] To sign it?

I don't know.

Maybe you're right.

[Mike] I know you don't want to,

but it's best for both of us.

[Heidi] If we take legal action,

what will he do when he finds out?

What kind of legal action?

The kind that forces you back to the

Glassman Clinic before it's too late.

Okay.

I'll go back.

Oh, Billy!

I am so happy.

Dear Heidi,

I'm going after Lempke.

The old guy knows what I did,

but not what you did.

That frees you up to believe

the curse is in my head.

Unfortunately, that's a luxury

I no longer have. I'll work it out.

In the meantime, if there's anything

going on between you and Dr. Mikey...

end it, immediately.

Billy.

[Man]

Biff Quigley.

Call me Biff. Mind telling me

why you want to know where they went?

- Yes, Biff, I mind.

- Fine.

Bill?

A man's reasons ought to be his own.

Good. Now, since we agree

on all that...

But it's still going to cost you $800.

- What?

- The info is a freebie.

The $800 is for the info...

I don't give your wife and doctor.

Do you take travelers' checks?

Gotcha.

[Woman] Come let the Gypsy king

guess your weight and tell your fate.

Don't be shy.

The old man, he knows everything.

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